What have the Philippine Government done with malnutrition in the philippines?

It is very obvious that the government had not done anything to alleviate the lives of the people more so with those living below the poverty line. Unemployment rate had increased and more people are getting hungry every day. The sad part is , people from the government have been enjoying travelling to different parts of the world spending the people's money.

distribute a little "lugaw" and then more corruption. do a little feeding program and pocket more. this administration no more than corruption itself!

i think our government dont have enough programs for this all they have to do is to corrupt and i think right now they are busy in their campaign.

The government has done something to address the malnutrition problem in the Philippines. Unfortunately, most programmes have not been sustained because of inadequate budget and most especially due to "lack of political will" among concerned officials and political leaders. I can cite one specific example: The Milk Feeding Programme being spearheaded by the National Dairy Authority (NDA) in collaboration with other government agencies and City and Local Government Units. This programme involves daily rationing of "free" choco-milk sachets to malnourished school or pre-school children in selected municipalities in the country. The NDA buys the choco-milk from local dairy farmer-processors. However, it only runs for three months for each selected school or municipality. Obviously, three months of milk-feeding is not enough to improve the nutrition of the target children. The government should institutionalize the "Local Milk Fund" (calling the attention of the Congress and the Senate) by regularly charging at least 10% tax from multinational corporations that are importing powdered milk. This way, the NDA will have regular source of fund to buy domestic milk from smallhold dairy farmers and subsequently support the Milk Feeding Programme (and the local dairy industry as well). Likewise, we should not depend mostly on our government to address malnutrition. Planting of horse radish tree (Moringa or "malunggay") or other vegetables in the backyard instead of ornamentals could help ease our need for nutritious food. Population growth should also be seriously addressed (malnutrition, poverty, unemployment, crime, etc. are all linked to uncontrolled growth in the country's population). Now, since "malnutrition" can also include being overweight (or obese), we should also be disciplined enough to watch our diet. Do not "spoil" your kids eating regularly in fast-food restaurants (partaking of high-salt, high-fat, and high-sugar "junks"). It leads to "malnutrition" sooner or later in life.

Nothing. I don't know if they just don't care or they don't have any brilliant ideas to resolve this issue. I don't believe that they don't have enough budget to give funds to Malnutrition cases here in the Philipines, they have, I fact people from the government whom suppused to be responsible of distirbuting this funds bought most likely a prpoerty for theirselves rather than to give this to the people who can't afford to put healthy food in their table. it is just sad that this is how the Philippine government works. I saw one time in the television, i think that was "probe team" that 75% of the population of Metro Manila can't afford to buy food that can give nutrients to their body.